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Max Headroom (1985) (TV)
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In the dystopic near future, a crusading TV reporter investigates news stories with the help of a wisecracking computer version of himself. full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Matt Frewer | ... | Edison Carter / Max Headroom |
| Nickolas Grace | ... | Grossman |
| Hilary Tindall | ... | Dominique |
 | William Morgan Sheppard | ... | Blank Reg (as Morgan Sheppard) |
 | Amanda Pays | ... | Theora Jones |
| Paul Spurrier | ... | Bryce Lynch |
| Hilton McRae | ... | Breugal |
| George Rossi | ... | Mahler |
| Roger Sloman | ... | Murray |
| Anthony Dutton | ... | Gorrister |
 | Constantine Gregory | ... | Ben Cheviot |
| Lloyd McGuire | ... | Edwards |
| Elizabeth Richardson | ... | Ms. Formby |
| Gary Hope | ... | Ashwell |
| Joane Hall | ... | Body bank receptionist |
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Remade almost scene-for-scene as the first episode of "Max Headroom" (1987). Only Frewer, Pays and Sheppard appeared in both versions. The obese TV viewer's death by "blipberts", and Carter's reaction to it, as well as the live TV doctor's topic on colon health were discarded. moreFAQ
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Like the TV show that followed it, the "Max Headroom" movie was a great grim look into a bleak, Blade-Runner-esque future ruled by corporations who keep the proletariat down by anesthetizing them with junk food and mind-numbing television pageantry. The parallels are frightening, or haven't you seen a Jerry Springer audience lately? The UK movie is, if anything, even grittier and more creepy than the eventual US pilot and TV series. It's out of print, but well worth searching out -- a dramatic, thought-provoking example of everything that's good about science fiction.